2007- Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, UCLA

1968 - 2006: Full Professor, Natural Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fields of Scholarship

chemistry under extreme conditions

nanoelectronics and molecule based logic devices

reaction dynamics and mechanism in large systems including clusters and in solution

algebraic techniques for structure and dynamics in anharmonic systems

dynamics in phase space, including the application of information theory

Honours and Awards

Member of Academia Europaea, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Max Planck Society, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, US National Academy of Sciences

Ramsay Memorial Fellow at University College London

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

honorary degrees from the Technische Universität München and from Liege University

Miller Research Professor at UC Berkeley, the A D While Professor at Large at Cornell and the Max Born Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Hebrew University

Recepient of Israel Prize in Exact Sciences, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Max Planck Prize for International Cooperation and other awards